Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (202 mails)

[Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@xxxxxxxxx>]

So this package[1] would be correctly packaged ?

[1] - 
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=dbus-sharp.spec&package=dbus-sharp&project=home%3Aketheriel%3Abranches%3AMono&srcmd5=8fb57678a54305a5048f80985daac7ea



On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 28/05/11 11:35, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Le samedi 28 mai 2011, à 02:11 +0100, Nelson Marques a écrit :
> > > My questions are quite simple:
> > >
> > > 1. Can we use a '%define _libdir %{libexecdir}? This would make the
> > > packages always install on /usr/lib (or as an alternative, '%define
> > > _libdir %{prefix}/lib');
> >
> > I don't understand. Why not use %{_libexecdir} directly?
>
> I wanted to ask this question too. :-)
>
> > > 2. Why would we want to drop the .pc file on /usr/share? If we would
> > > use the macro above, shouldn't it also be sane to dump the .pc file on
> > > /usr/lib/pkgconfig ?
> >
> > That's how pkg-config works: arch-independent .pc files go to
> > /usr/share/pkgconfig. So it's right the current way.
>
> +1
>
> > > 3. In the cases where we have a devel package only for the .pc file,
> > > could we merge it and have a 'Provides: %{name}-devel' ?
> >
> > We could, yes. Not sure if it's better or not; possibly a matter of
> > taste.
>
> We should not, because installing SomeMonoApplication would install all
> it's development requirements which is not what you want. (It's probably
> OK if all mono devel packages contained only one .pc file, but I suppose
> that is not the case ...).
>
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>
> Pavol RUSNAK                                       SUSE LINUX, s.r.o
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